Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Drumhillagh (upper Loughtee By.), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumhillagh (upper Loughtee By.)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.98285, -7.25995
- SMR number
- CV026-031----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Raised circular area (int. dims. 27.4m ENE-WSW; 28.3m NNW-SSE) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a shallow fosse. Low outer bank noted in an earlier report (OPW 1970) has been almost totally levelled. Original entrance may have been at SSE where there is a narrow break in the inner bank and a causeway across the fosse.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.